Lucas, Leon A.

Scott Love concentrates his practice in the areas of products liability, personal injury, wrongful death, mass tort litigation and class action litigation. In addition to handling individual catastrophic injury cases, Scott has been involved in numerous consumer class actions and mass tort cases, including, insurance cases, oil & gas cases and various pharmaceutical cases such as Trasylol, Paxil, Accutane, Topamax, Zoloft, and transvaginal mesh.

This year, Scott was appointed as national counsel on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the Transvaginal Mesh federal Multi-District litigation pending in West Virginia by the Honorable Judge Goodwin. Scott currently serves on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for the following MDLs:

In Re: American Medical Systems, Inc., Pelvic Repair Systems Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2325
In Re: C.R. Bard, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2187
In Re: Ethicon, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2327
In Re: Boston Scientific Corp. Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2326
 

Scott is also one of the leading attorneys in the national Trasylol litigation which was transferred to the Southern District of Florida. Scott was honored with the appointment of co-lead counsel of the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee by the Honorable Donald Middlebrooks in May 2008. As co-lead counsel of the PSC, Scott was responsible for coordinating the overall litigation strategy which has successfully resulted in the settlement of the great majority of cases pending across the country.

Scott, along with two colleagues, obtained a $2.5 million dollar verdict in the case of Kilker v. GSK, tried in Philadelphia, PA (October 2009) for injuries sustained by their minor client in the Paxil Birth Defect Litigation.

In addition to his active trial practice, Scott speaks on topics involving litigation and trial strategies and trends, including topics such as:

Products Liability
Expert Discovery
Pharmaceutical Litigation
Catastrophic Birth Injury Cases
Cross-Examination of Expert Witnesses
 

Since 2006, Scott has been recognized every year by his peers as a Super Lawyer (A Thomson Reuters service). This honor is given to less than 5% of all attorneys in the State of Texas. He has also had the distinction of being named one of Houston’s Top Lawyers (2007-2011) and one of Houston's Lawyers on the Fast Track (2006-2011) as presented by H Texas Magazine.